The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-12-22
rise in the morning at five O'Clock to pray

Philadelphia translated spirit now,
wrote a book entitled: ''Man, Moral
and Physical" in which he shows how
different tine same things may APP
pear to different people. He says:
"After the great battle on the Mincio in
1859 between the French and Sardinians
on the one side and the Austrians on the
other so disastrous to the latter, the de-
feated army retreated, followed by the
yictors. A description of the march OF
each army is given by two correspondents
of the London Times, one of whom trav
eled with the successful host, the other
with the defeated. The difference in
views and statements of the same places,
scenes and events is remarkable. The
former are said to be marching through
beautiful and luxuriant country during
the day, and at night encamping where
they are supplied with an abundance
of the best provisions, and all sorts of
rural dainties. There is nothing of war
about the proceeding except its stimulus
and excitement On the side of the poor
Austrians it is just the reverse. In his let
ter of the same date, describing the same
places aud march over the same road,
the writer can scarcely find words
to set forth the suffering, impa-
thence and disgust existing around
him. What was pleasant to the former
was intolerable to the latter. What
made all this difference? asks the jour-
nalist. 'One condition only-the French
are victorious; the Austrians have been
defeated. The contrast may convey a
distinctive idea of ths extent to which
moral impressions affect the efficiency of
the soldier.'"
Spiritual condition so nightly affected
by the physical state. What great
opportunity this gives to the Christian
physician, for he an feel at the same
time both the pulse of the body and the
pulse of the soul, and he can administer
to both at once, and if medicine is needed
he can give that, and if spiritual counsel
is needed he can give that-an earthly and
divine prescription at the same time
| and call not only on the apothecary of
| earth but the pharmacy of heaven. All,
that is the kind of doctor 1 want at my
| bedside when get sick-one that can not
| only count out the right number of drops,
but who can also pray. That is the kind
Of doctor have had in my house when
sickness or death came.
do not want any of your profigate or
atheistic doctors around my loved ones
when the balances of life are trembling.
A doctor who has gone through the med-
cal college, and in dissecting room has
| traversed the wonders of the human
mechanism, and found no God in any of
the labyrinths, is a fool, and can not doc
tor me or mine. But, oh, the Christian
doctors! What comfort they have been
in many of our households. And they
ought to have a warm place in our
prayers, as well as praise on our tongue.
Dear old DR.. Skillman! My fathers doc
tor. my mothers doctor, in the village
home. He carried all the condolences of
all the families for ten miles around. We
all felt better as soon as we saw him
enter the house. His face pronounced a
beatitude before he said a
word. He welcomed all of US chill
dren into life, and he closed the
old peoples eyes when they en-
tered the last slumber. | think | know
what Christ said to him when the old
doctor got through his work. l think he
was greeted with the words: 'Come in,
doctor. | was sick and We visited me ~
| bless God that the number of Christian
physicians is multiplying, and some of
the students of the medical colleges are
here to-day, and I hail you, and bless
| L,
beautiful, heaven-descended work of a
Christian physician, and when you take
your diploma from the Long Island Med.
ical College to look after the perishable
body, be sure also to get diploma from
the skies to look after the imperishable
soul.
Let all Christian physicians unite with
ministers of the Gospel in persuading
| hot is sat
God is against them that thew
sometimes feel depressed, but because
of their diseased body. l suppose
David, the psalmist, was no more pious
when he called on every thing human and
angelic, animate and inanimatc, and from
snowflake to hurricane, to praise God
than when he said:
Out of the depths of he'll have 1 come unto
thee, o Lord.
Or that jeremiah was any better when he
wrote his prophecy than when he wrote
his Lament ations," or that Job was any
better when he said:
know that my Redeemer liveth,
than when, covered all over with the pus.
tules Of elephantiasis, he sat in the ashes
scratching the scabs off with a broken
piece of pottery; or that Alexander Cru.
| ueH, tHo COnCOTQiSt, was any better man
when he compiled the book that has helped
ten thousand students of the Bible than
when, under the power of physical dis.
order, he was handcuffed aud strait.
waistcoated in Bethnal Green Insane Asy.
lum.
Another practical use of this subject is
for the young. The theory is abroad that
they must first sow their wild oats, and
afterward Michigan wheat Let me
break the delusion. Wild oats are gen.
orally sown in the liver, and they can
never be pulled up. They so preoccupy
that organ that there is no room fol-
the implantation of righteous crop.
You see aged men about us at eighty
erect, agile, splendid, grand old men
How much wild oats did they SOW be-
tween eighteen years and thirty? None.
absolutely none. God does not very
often honor with old age those who have
in early lfe sacrificed swine on the altar
OF the bodily temple. Remember, c
young man, that while in after life, and
alters years of dissipation, you may, per
haps, have your heart changed, religion
does not change the liver. Trembling and
staggering along these streets to-day are